Medialogue Basel

Key Concerns in Media Research: Methods, Scope, Relevance – An Introduction

The first session of Medialogue is concerned with questioning key parameters of media research in relation to influential discoursive positions and the groups’ ongoing projects. A special focus will lie on the role of methods and disciplinary confinements, engaging with readings of John Law’s After Method, Brian Holmes’ Extradisciplinary Investigations and others.

Medialogue is a joint research colloquium of the Institute of Media Studies, University Basel, and the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures, Academy of Art and Design FHNW. Medialogue will serve as a forum of exchange on current issues of media (research) practice, a testing ground for research approaches and hypotheses, and an endeavour to extend the very format of a colloquium. Medialogue as a series will take place at different locations and combine elements like demonstrations, guest lectures, text discussions, and experiments.